Winner · European Union Prize for Literature 2012
City of Bohane
by Kevin Barry
2011 novel by Kevin Barry
Set 40 years in the future, the once great city of Bohane on the west coast of Ireland is in terminal decline, with vice and tribal splits rife. Logan Hartnett, godfather of the Hartnett Fancy gang has been in charge but his nemesis has arrived back in town, his henchmen are becoming ambitious, his wife wants him to give it all up and go straight, and he has his mother to contend with.
Synopsis from Open Library.
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 277
- ISBN
- 9788415539896
- Subjects
- Gangs, Fiction, Fiction, crime, Ireland, fiction, Gangs$zIreland
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